Saturday, August 18th: Final Night of Rooftop Films’s Season – Shorts Program
Rooftop Shorts The Old American Can Factory (232 Third St., Brooklyn) 8pm $12 at the door only 8:00 PM Doors Open 8:30 PM Live Music by Beacon 9:00 PM Film Starts 11:00PM–12:30AM Reception in Courtyard Closing Night! The sharpest short films—Award-winning comedy, drama, animation and documentary—fired from the roof one last time. We celebrate and [...]
Saturday, August 11th: ‘Detropia’ + Afterparty with Free Drinks
Detropia The Old American Can Factory (232 Third St., Brooklyn) 8pm $12 A cinematic tapestry of a city and its people who refuse to leave the building, even as the flames are rising. Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady will be in attendance for a Q and A following the screening. After the Q and [...]
Saturday, August 4th: ‘The Patron Saints’
The Patron Saints The Old American Can Factory (232 Third St., Brooklyn) 8pm $12 in advance 8:00 PM Doors Open 8:30 PM Live Music by Christopher Paul Stelling 9:00 PM Film Begins After achieving success at the Rotterdam and Toronto film festivals, Rooftop is thrilled to be presenting this hauntingly unconventional and darkly humorous documentary. [...]
Saturday, July 28th: ‘Grandma Lo-Fi’
Grandma Lo-Fi The Old American Can Factory (232 Third St., Brooklyn) 8pm $12 Sigríður Níelsdóttir started making music in her living room at age 70, recording 59 albums and becoming an Icelandic cult hero. It’s never too late to do what you love. 8:00PM Doors Open 8:30PM Live Music 9:00PM Film Begins 11:30PM-12:30AM Reception in [...]
Saturday, July 21st: ‘Brooklyn Castle’ + Free Drinks
Brooklyn Castle The Old American Can Factory (232 Third St., Brooklyn) 7:30pm doors $12 in advance Brooklyn Castle tells the story of I.S. 318 – an inner-city school where most students come from low-income homes – that also happens to have the most winning chess team in the country. Presented by Rooftop Films and Kickstarter [...]
Saturday, July 7th: The Madness of Production – Short Films with Rooftop Films
The Madness of Production The Old American Can Factory (232 Third St., Brooklyn) 8pm $12 Rooftop Films and XO Projects’ annual INDUSTRIANCE™ show presents visually astonishing and intellectually stimulating films that examine the changing landscape in industry and architecture and the way these changes affect individuals around the world. Click here for more cheap New [...]
Thursday, May 31st: ‘Bovines’ with Rooftop Films + Free Beer
Bovines The Old American Can Factory (232 Third St., Brooklyn) 8pm $12 in advance In the fields, one sees them, wide in grass or grazing peacefully. Large placid animals which one believes to know because they are livestock. Lions, gorillas, bear have all our attention, but did one ever really look at cows? Filmmaker Emmanuel [...]
Saturday, May 19th: ‘The Waiting Room’ + Cat Martino
The Waiting Room The Old American Can Factory (232 Third St., Brooklyn) 8pm $12, advance purchase suggested The American medical system is in tatters, and political arguments often overlook the most fundamental element: human beings’ health. Director Peter Nicks knew the problems would be most evident, the drama most poignant, in one place: a low-income, [...]
Tuesday, January 31st: ‘Battle For Brooklyn’ Screening
Battle For Brooklyn The Old American Can Factory (232 Third St., Brooklyn) 7pm doors, 7:30pm film Free In 2003 filmmaker Michael Galinsky read a New York Times article about a New Jersey Nets stadium coming to Brooklyn. Eight years and three lawsuits later, the Forest City Ratner vs. The People vs. The State of New [...]
Saturday, July 2nd: ‘Where Soldiers Come From’
Where Soldiers Come From The Old American Can Factory (232 3rd St., Brooklyn) 8pm doors $10 On July 4th weekend, Rooftop presents a journey from a snowy small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan and back, following childhood friends forever changed by a faraway war. As we go through our daily lives, [...]
Sunday, June 5th: ‘The City Dark’ Premiere with Music by The Fisherman Three
The City Dark The Old American Can Factory (232 3rd St., Brooklyn) 8pm doors $10 For thousands of years, the night sky was a crucial part of human experience, but due to light pollution, the stars are disappearing from our vision and consciousness. Would bringing back the sky make us better humans, or save us [...]
